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They will be slower vs the FireTV Stick 4K and do not have DolbyVision or a properly implemented Dolby Audio license meaning you will have issues with DD+ audio out of Netflix as an example if you only have a DD only audio receiver.
WiFi will be weaker as well because the 4K stick has excellent AC MIMO (multiple antennas) WiFi - about the best you can get.
The 4K stick has the best wireless remote in the media player market, the Nvidia Shield the worst.
I seriously doubt Prime Video will work as well on anything Android TV vs using it on actual Amazon hardware.
Frame Rate matching on the FireTV 4K stick is superior vs any Android TV hardware.
You would be buying slower, inferior hardware.
Something faster = a Nvidia Shield, even then it’s HDR tech and picture quality is not as good vs the 4K stick. No Dolby anything on the Shield either. Watch out if you only have a DD only audio receiver and use a Shield, expect 2.0 Netflix and 2.0 Prime audio in that scenario.
The Shield has a fast, but relatively old GPU that misses out on some important modern HDR technologies like 4K HDR YouTube and Play Movies.
This guy just became available a few days back: https://www.airtv.net/products/airtv_mini/
It may be something worth looking into.
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I would think it to be most difficult to answer that question without know what your primary usage would be. For the answers given, it is apparently "assumed" that you are referring to a streaming device only.
Each device has it's own pros and cons, but it depends on what your requirements are.
IF you have your own media, ex. TV recordings or DVD, BlueRay or UHD Blueray rips, then there are a lot of less expensive hardware and performs better than even the Shield........
Grab some $40 generic Android TV box, install LibreELEC or CoreELEC media center onto it, and bam!!, you have an awesome media player. Plays EVERY audio and Video codec you can throw at it.